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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Binghamton, NY

June 30, 2013Steuben County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2013, 5:24 PM EDT for Steuben County, New York. It was in force for 66 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 30, 2013, 5:24 PM EDT (21:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2013, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Steuben County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 295 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 23 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -107 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 860 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Binghamton, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 30, 5:13 PM EDT, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 5:13 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 30, 4:43 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 30, 3:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
359 PM EDT SUN JUN 30 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0245 PM     FLASH FLOOD      MOSCOW                  41.34N  75.53W
06/30/2013                   LACKAWANNA         PA   911 CALL CENTER

            3 FT. OF WATER PONDED ON CHURCH ST.

&&

EMG

Local storm report, Jun 30, 4:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
400 PM EDT SUN JUN 30 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0355 PM     FLASH FLOOD      4 SW MOUNTAIN TOP       41.13N  75.95W
06/30/2013                   LUZERNE            PA   911 CALL CENTER

            ROAD FLOODED IN RICE TOWNSHIP

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JML

Local storm report, Jun 30, 4:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 30, 4:34 PM EDT, 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 30, 5:01 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 30, 5:07 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 2:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Sullivan	6 hr
Jun 30, 2:42 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Sullivan	3 hr
Jun 30, 4:22 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	BGM	Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware and 11 more	54 hr
Jun 30, 4:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Steuben	3 hr
Jun 30, 4:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Broome, Chenango	3 hr
Jun 30, 5:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Steuben	23 min
Jun 30, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung	60 min
Jun 30, 6:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Delaware, Otsego	3 hr
Jun 30, 6:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Otsego	3 hr
Jun 30, 6:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Tioga	65 min
Jun 30, 7:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Tioga	56 min
Jun 30, 7:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Chemung, Steuben	3 hr
Jun 30, 1:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Pike, Wayne	3 hr
Jun 30, 1:44 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne	3 hr
Jun 30, 2:32 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne	6 hr
Jun 30, 7:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Bradford	36 min
Jun 30, 7:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Bradford	3 hr

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.